How Long to Read Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama

How Long Does it Take to Read Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama by Robert E. Terrill

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Description

“This incisive work” examining Obama’s speeches and the theories of W.E.B. DuBois “illuminates the influences of words and ideas” (Choice). The racial history of US citizenship is vital to our understanding of both citizenship and race. Robert E. Terrill argues that, to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must draw on the indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill demonstrates how President Barack Obama’s public address models such a discourse. Terrill contends that Obama’s most effective oratory invites his audiences to experience a form of “double-consciousness,” famously described by W. E. B. Du Bois as a feeling of “two-ness” resulting from the African American experience of “always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.” An effect of cruel alienation, this double-consciousness can also offer valuable perspectives on society. When addressing fellow citizens, Obama asks each to share in the “peculiar sensation” that Du Bois described. Through close analyses of selected speeches from Obama’s 2008 campaign and first presidential term, this book argues that Obama does not present double-consciousness merely as a point of view but as an idiom with which we might speak to one another. Of course, as Du Bois’s work reminds us, double-consciousness results from imposition and encumbrance, so that Obama’s oratory presents a mode of address that emphasizes the burdens of citizenship together with the benefits, the price as well as the promise.

How long is Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama?

Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama by Robert E. Terrill is 291 pages long, and a total of 73,041 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 39 minutes to read Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama aloud.

What Reading Level is Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama?

Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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